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Monthly Archives: June 2003
Meet the good Joe and Hadassah
Today’s Boston Globe has a brief notice headlined “People of the Nextbook” about the online magazine Nextbook.org, “a newly launched online digest of Jewish-themed cultural news and reviews.” Among several interesting items on the site’s home page is one on “Joseph Lieberman, a teacher at a Brooklyn yeshiva and author (with his wife, Hadassah) of the self-published screed Joseph Lieberman Is a Pious Liberal and Other Observations. ‘My name and »
The Times Flunks History and Geography
It was a bad week for Thomas Jefferson at the New York Times. The former “paper of record” has trouble with both history and geography, as two of today’s Corrections indicate: “An article last Sunday about the role of Val »
Democratic Attacks Continue
The Democrats obviously think they are on to something with their attacks on the case the Administration made for the Iraq war; their campaign continues today with this article by Walter Pincus in the Washington Post, which has appeared in many other newspapers as well. This one is titled “Report Cast Doubt on Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection,” and it follows the familiar pattern: anonymous Democrats in the intelligence agencies and on »
“I’ll take it from here”
Although it has apparently attained the status of a folk art icon, I only learned about this inspirational drawing today. According to the June 23 issue of the Weekly Standard, it was drawn by Jeff Grier, an art teacher at Madison High School in northeast Ohio, based on the conception of Grier’s colleague, Madison High math teacher Tom Hernan. On June 13 Grier presented an oil painting of the drawing »
The white man’s burden
Trunk, I finally read the Washington Post story about “whiteness studies” that you posted yesterday. My reaction? Well, Thomas Jefferson was a clever fellow. I suppose it’s possible that he invented the white race, in advance of inventing majority rule, so he would have a majority to belong to. But, while Jefferson may have invented “whiteness,” those who invent these courses are doing their best to keep it alive. For »
A chip off the old trunk
Last night we had the pleasure of sharing an evening with Big Trunk’s daughter who is working in Washington this summer. “Little Trunk” is (1) among the nicest, most delightful people we’ve met and (2) an outstanding new conservative voice. That someone with her fine personal qualities could have drawn so much fire from a few Yale professors shows just how strong her voice is. Check out her new blog »
“U.S. Seeks WMD Data in Seized Iraqi Papers”
“U.S. soldiers, acting on a tip, seized top secret code equipment and piles of Iraqi intelligence documents in a raid Saturday on a community center. The find, including references to a nuclear program, is being sent to senior intelligence analysts to look for information on Iraq’s banned weapons programs.” This is why the Democrats are assigning the “missing WMD” attacks on President Bush to people like Robert Byrd who aren’t »
Poetry in motion
The BBC reports that Great Britain poet laureate Andrew Motion has delivered a two-sided poetic tribute to Prince William on the occasion of his twenty-first birthday. Entitled “On the Record,” the “A” side is “kind of rap” in tribute to the prince’s interest in the form: Better stand back Here’s an age attack, But the second in line Is dealing with it fine. It’s a threshold, a gateway, A landmark »
South Dakota Bloggers Break Through
The blogosphere strikes again. Bloggers like South Dakota Politics have done a great job of exposing the incredibly biased reporting of the state’s dominant newspaper, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. In particular, they have discovered a 35-year relationship between the Argus-Leader’s political columnist David Kranz–the only such regular columnist in the state–and Argus Leader “home boy” Tom Daschle, going back to their days as college students, when Kranz and Daschle »
Democrats Come to Minnesota
The annual summer meeting of the Association of State Democratic Chairs was held in St. Paul yesterday; the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The event does not seem to have been very successful. It was overshadowed by President Bush’s visit to the state the day before, and only three of the nine Democratic Presidential candidates attended: Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton and Howard Dean. Candidates Kerry, Lieberman and Gephardt appeared via video »
More on the BBC’s Pfc. Lynch Fable
Remember the BBC’s attempted debunking of the Jessica Lynch rescue story? A great deal has been written about the BBC’s story, now partly retracted, which was the basis for hysterical screeds against the Administration by Robert Scheer and others. One of the key elements of the BBC’s account was the claim that Private Lynch was safe and sound in the Iraqi hospital, and in fact, at one point the Iraqi »
More on the Bridge Bomber
The New York Times has more on Lyman Faris, the truck driver who plotted to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. The Times, of course, can’t merely note another success in the war against Islamofascist terror without taking a swipe at the Administration: “The chronology raised questions about whether the F.B.I. focused on Mr. Faris aggressively enough early in their investigation if he did represent a serious threat.” This highlights the »
Mahmud: Saddam and Sons Still In Business
Abid Hamad Mahmud, Saddam Hussein’s captured aide, has told interrogators that Saddam and his two sons all survived the Iraq war. Mahmud says they split up early in the war to lessen the likelihood of their capture; he claims the two sons fled to Syria at one point but were forced to return to Iraq. It is unclear whether he has any recent intelligence on the Husseins’ whereabouts, but most »
The appeal of “none of the above”
Yesterday’s Washington Times carried an interesting story on its American Survey: “Gearing up for election 2004.” The survey measures the strength of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic candidates for president against President Bush. I think Hillary does remarkably well, especially if one contemplates her as a candidate against someone other than President Bush in 2008. Here is the Times summary of the response to the survey’s second question: “The second »
Targeting Hamas
The Washington Post has a good page-one story by Dana Milbank on the Bush administration’s backing off its criticism of Israel’s attack on the Hamas leader Rantisi: “Bush’s shift on Israel was swift.” The Post story emphasizes Bush’s subsequent meeting with Jewish leaders and related political calculations, but the key fact reported in the story is obviously the intelligence Israel shared with the adminsitration after the attack on Rantisi. The »
The Democrats’ WMD scandal
The Wall Street Journal has posted Rush Limbaugh’s excellent column on the Democratic effort to impugn the Bush administration and commence an investigation over our failure to locate Saddam Hussein’s WMD. The column poses the question whether the Democrats shouldn’t investigate themselves: “Carl Levin’s amnesia.” David Brooks elaborates at length on the underlying point in the cover story of the Weekly Standard issue out this morning: “Democrats go over the »
Meet Live Shot
Part 7 of the Boston Globe profile of John Kerry concludes the series. It picks up with the beginning of his second term as senator in 1991. According to the Globe, “By the time John Kerry began his second term as US senator in 1991, his nickname among Massachusetts political insiders was ‘Live Shot,’ a reference to his relentless courting of reporters, especially those with TV cameras in tow.” The »
